Featured Image

Featured Video

Supporters

Unable to embed Rapid1Pixelout audio player. Please double check that: 1)You have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. 2)This web page does not have any fatal Javascript errors. 3)The audio-player.js file of Rapid1Pixelout has been included.

It became very resistant Aspergillus spp in recent years. Probably due to excessive use of antifungal medicines.
Sabouraud Dextrose Agar it was used for sensitivity after 48 hours of incubation at 37 Celsius degrees.
Read More

The left plate incubated at 37 Celsius degrees.- spores present
The right plate incubated at 25 Celsius degrees-spores absent
Sabouraud Dextrose Agar it was used for the isolation after 24 hours of incubation at 37/25 Celsius degrees.
Read More

The picture was taken after my students at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico-San German, learned the technique of water filtration analysis of fecal coliforms in water. They filtrated a mL of groundwater from a nearby aquifer and transferred the filter to Endo agar plates. The pictur...
Read More

TORONTO, June 5, 2015--The flu kills hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year, yet there is essentially only one class of drugs to fight the ever-changing virus. Cases of flu resistant to this class of drugs have already been reported and researchers worry a completely new str...
Read More

From a single drop of blood, researchers can now simultaneously test for more than 1,000 different strains of viruses that currently or have previously infected a person. Using a new method known as VirScan, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School tested fo...
Read More

Anyone who has crawled along in the left lane while other drivers raced up the right lane, which was clearly marked “lane ends, merge left,” has experienced social cheating, a maddening and fascinating behavior common to many species.

Although it won’t help with road rage, scientists are begi...
Read More

Researchers at the University of Bonn and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have discovered two new groups of viruses within the Bunyavirus family in the tropical forest of Ivory Coast. Previously only five groups responsible for serious illnesses in humans and animals were known. ...
Read More

Virologists at Emory University School of Medicine, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta have uncovered a critical detail explaining how HIV assembles its infectious yet stealthy clothing.
Read More

Unknown organism seen on a TSA plate used to do a handprint. Organism was seen on the outside of the imprint so not sure if it came from the hand or was contaminant. Colony was circular, tan/white, rhizoid growth in the center with a smooth margin and mucoid throughout.
Read More

An invasive species of single-cell algae has spread across the Caribbean Sea, report researchers.

These micro-algae, which live within the cells of coral animals, are improving the resilience of coral communities to heat stress caused by global warming, but also are diminishing the abilities ...
Read More